skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be honest - it actually seems like a risky Private Equity play as I bet the $65000 sticker price is due to the fact that Medicare is footing the bill. Medicare is likely what is requiring a regulation grade wheel chair, not the users themselves.

I bet a huge segment of the user base could easily self purchase a mobility scooter and achieve the same quality of life if the price point was such that they could out of pocket the purchase and there was decent quality/repairability/safety.

There do seem to be a fair number that are approaching "geez I might as well just buy an over the counter version" (i.e. sub-$2000) instead of going through the paperwork hassle of getting a free Medicare "prescription" for one.
Because you don’t know that it will. If it’s been out for less than a year perhaps no one has been harmed by it yet.
A VPN is not enough for privacy. But in combination with a privacy-focused browser, you make sure to block third-party cookies and other tracking technologies used by the data collectors.

The paragraph above is clearly visible on our landing page. We don't want people using our service for things it's not designed for.

The paragraph below is also a direct quote from our website.

"When you visit a website, you can be identified and tracked through your IP address, third-party cookies, all kinds of tracking scripts, and through so called browser fingerprints. That’s why masking your IP address is not enough to stop the data collection. However, by using a trustworthy VPN in combination with a privacy-focused browser, you can put up a better resistance against the mass surveillance of today. That's why we partnered with the Tor Project to develop Mullvad Browser – a browser designed to minimize tracking and fingerprints."
FYI, the forced arbitration clause has existed in the ToS since 2018. This is not new.

Blog post from 2018: https://discord.com/safety/terms-of-service-feedback-and-cha...
Archived version of ToS from may 2020: https://discord.com/terms/terms-of-service-may-2020
Windows users have had screens full of icons since at least the 3.x days... and you can easily search google images for tons of Windows 98/XP screenshots from the early 2000s of desktops completely filled to the brim with shortcuts and such.
CTO says to apply and he will still take a look at your resume!
I went through the same paradigm shift with cycling. I used a cheap bike that was slow and heavy because higher efficiency wouldn't allow me to get exercise any faster. Then I got a nice road bike, and it's so much more fun to ride, so I'm riding a lot more.
My Model 3 already charges at 180kw. Are they saying cars built with these batteries will charge at 1.8Mw? How are they going to build charging infrastructure at that level?
I would guess it's often better to make a slightly more complicated interface if that is what provides the best experience for an adept user. If you need the interface to satisfy the needs of a user from the first minute they experience it with no effort on their part to become more skilled, then you sacrifice a lot.

Software that is very enjoyable to use as you gain more intimacy with it is Ableton, which is used for music production. When you first see it, you're likely to think it looks dated and not too sophisticated. However, as you grow in your knowledge of how to access various features, you come to appreciate that it has been designed exceptionally well. For software that someone will spend significant time using, the goal should be a low barrier to entry and a high skill ceiling.
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Or Broadcom...
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Ah, Right. So, how would I add support for reloading the configuration of my init-Script service without restarting it, in a way that works across all major distributions and versions, without googling?

Show me your script, compare it to the one line of my unit file, and tell me that isn’t brittle.
OpenZFS 2.2.4 – Linux and FreeBSD – Advanced file system and volume manager
I recently read some reviews of investors in SV. Some name brand investors like Jason Calacanis, Pejman Nozad, and some YC alumnus, are all actually very clueless people, often with acerbic behaviors to boot. In that respect, at least the investor class of Wall Street seems to have a much higher degree of expertise and civility, compared to the buffoons of Silicon Valley.
Me too, but never that risky. The worst it got was a drunk college girl throwing up on the way back from the bar.
If you're looking to build an AI notetaker for medical use-cases (or others), https://www.recall.ai is a HIPAA compliant API to capture conversations from video conferences.

P.S. I'm the founder, so obviously biased :)
AI Regulators Are More Likely to Run Amok Than Is AI
It is new again, actually - if you opted out previously, you have to opt out again to stay opted out, according to the wording of the new terms. One opt out per Discord account, if you have multiple, in each case within 30 days of registering that account or of April 15, 2024, whichever is later. This provision does not make reference to the first time you accepted a version of these terms with an arbitration clause, or a similar phrase that would obviate the need for a new opt-out.

On the plus side, if you didn’t opt out before, you get a new opportunity to opt out, which according to the new terms will remove all disputes that have not yet been filed from the scope of previous arbitration agreements with Discord.

Since the clause only applies if you are a US resident, it’s very unclear how that opt-out deadline applies to existing Discord accounts for people who relocate into the US after the deadline. The conservative approach is to opt out wherever in the world you live, in case you later move to the US.
Why would anyone choose to sell a node.js boilerplate as a scam? Sounds kinda twisted to me, as if you had to find a fault of some sort. I tried to follow advice from people who i thought successful on HN or so they claimed, I'm still trying my way around on the platform I'm just wondering if you are going to encourage me or just try to take me down?
IMO these are just shitty examples.

Harry Partch - 2 Studies on Ancient Greek Scales is amazing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6IinoChSVA

There is also an acquired taste for non-standard tunings like the taste for beer. Some beers though are just bad.
GDC 2024 – Tears of the Kingdom: Evolving Physics and Sounds [video]
Some additions are nice, but I have my doubts about where this is going. As usual, Google throws in tons of extra stuff. To compute the size, position and appearance of anything, engines have to deal with a growing list of instructions, that all brings conflict. We had floats, flex, grids, position, and now anchor positioning as well.

It strikes me that the more useful additions are implemented by Firefox, and the lesser ones not.

I had expected that by now we would have a super light (kernel) spec for SPAs, and the heavier spec for design heavy documents. Chrome cannot keep up with Firefox wrt CSS performance.
I don't understand why Google is overloading its own camel; the web is not going to render faster with more added complexity.
> If you insist on controlling the noise in monetary phenomena through fiscal policy you'll have a really bad time.

Isn't that more a political problem than an economic insight though? We know fiscal policy impacts monetary phenomena (PPP loans, stimulus checks, the child tax credit, etc had inflationary effects), but it's too politically easy to spend more, and too politically difficult to raise taxes, and it's definitely too hard to do either in a timely manner in response to changing economic conditions.

But if we had given a politically independent body like the Fed control of tax / spend knobs instead of interest rates, and allowed them to evaluate whether to change those things on a scheduled basis as economic data arrive ... maybe that would also work, we'll just never get the opportunity to try it.
Apartheid has multiple meanings. It is a bit disingenuous to look up the “Apartheid (South Africa)” disambiguation when talking about allegations of Apartheid being committed by Israel. The “Apartheid (South Africa)” disambiguation is a historic term which refers to the segregationist policies of a specific government and legislator which doesn’t exist any more.

If you want to look up this term in the dictionary—or better yet, an encyclopedia—you should look at the disambiguates “Apartheid (Crime against humanity)” or “Apartheid (International humanitarian law)” in which case you’ll probably be referred to the Rome Statute Part 2, Article 7, Paragraph 2(h):

> "The crime of apartheid" means inhumane acts of a character similar to those referred to in paragraph 1, committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime;

Israel does segregate inside the territories they control, and the inhabitants of some of those territories are predominantly of one racial group (Palestinian Arabs), which suffers systematic oppression and domination by another racial group (Israeli Jews). The practices and policies of Israel in its occupied territories do constitute a Crime against humanity, and in particular, the crime of Apartheid. I will refer to an ongoing ICJ case 186[1] which lists these accusations and how they constitute a crime against humanity. In particular the South Africa testimony[2] (Page 36, Paragraph 93)

> While the Palestinian experience is not entirely identical to the South African one, a number of apartheid-style atrocities are being reproduced in Palestine, such as the permit system which applies only to Palestinians travelling to and from the Gaza Strip, annexed East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank. This includes the creation of a dual legal system consisting of an intricate and obscure system of military orders and regulations, which “often racialised in implementation rather than on paper makes the depth of Israel’s systematic discrimination less immediately conspicuous than its counterpart in South Africa”.

1: https://www.icj-cij.org/case/186

2: https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/186...
You might want to put the brakes on. I just visited the site and saw some very offensive content.
Without commenting on the specific standards and regulations, the parade of horribles that could go wrong with a powered wheelchair is pretty extensive, when realizing that when a wheelchair goes wrong the user cannot move away from it. Consider the risks of a battery fire you can't escape, a drivetrain that could grab loose clothing around a pair of immobile legs, or a user whose wheelchair dies on an empty street at night at -10°F because it couldn't handle the cold for long enough. This doesn't mean the incumbents aren't fixing the regulations to ensure they've got a manufacturing moat -- this being healthcare, I assume that's exactly what they're doing -- but the FDA definitely has reasons to make sure these are regulated.
NetGuard doesn't support the standard OS leak blocking like Mullvad and doesn't try to filter DNS so it inherently has leaks. There are no known remote leaks on Android 14 when a VPN app supporting is already active or when it's down. The DNS leaks in this post were partially caused by an app bug that's not fixed and also happen when the VPN is in the process of connecting. The issue with leaks when the VPN is in the process of connecting may be an app bug or an OS bug. It's not clear that it's an OS bug at this point. It was reported to us for GrapheneOS earlier and we've been looking into it.

There's also leak issue which was reported where multicast packets leak outside of the VPN tunnel to the local network. This is highly likely to be an OS bug, unlike the DNS leak issue where it's not yet clear if the OS or the app is the problem. The OS can likely prevent those DNS leaks even if apps don't get fixed but it wasn't necessarily supposed to be responsible for it. From the OS perspective, a VPN app is supposed to set a DNS configuration and not setting that configuration results in partially using the OS DNS.
One of my friends had the "brilliant" idea of playing "drywall roulette." In a room about to be demoed, run headfirst into somewhere near the center of the wall. First person to hit a stud loses.
Well there you go :)

If you have the land for it, you might find it mildly more cost effective to ground-mount solar panels at a steeper angle to optimize for wintertime production, which would allow you to shrink the battery. Installing 10000 kg of batteries in a home isn't something likely to ever be super easy.
How strange after seeing this after pulling my hair out the other day about this exact issue. If only it was implemented today!
> Don't ever believe anyone claiming they "got so mad they punched a hole in the wall"...

Yeah that's not true man. You can get lucky and not hit a 2x4, it's not like it's impossible to punch a hole in drywall without advance prep.
GPS is relatively new (only the last 30 years or so).

There was a whole set of navigational aids available to pilots beforehand; NDBs, VORs, TACAN, LORAN, RADAR, etc, etc, etc.

AND OF COURSE, THE BEST OF ALL, THE HUMAN EYE AND A WAC CHART.
Definitely my first time hearing about https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/chiark-really/really.8.e... - just a great command name right there
> The key is the boards designed for breaking are cut in their weakest orientation.

So you're saying it's all for show, like some 10 kilo barbell weights being ridiculously oversized just to soothe the ego?
Somehow I ended up here: https://grabify.link/track/K0U70F
I'm being relocated to Rwanda What does this mean for me? [pdf]
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/03/home...
> I asked people what the rotary dial on a power drill does.

Another classic involves types of controls for a faucet, and the ambiguity around which operations mean more/less water versus changing the blend of a specific amount of water.
> Historically, virtually all monopolies have been the result of government interference

I'm with you on this. In general, the state (by definition) functions to protect the interests of the politically dominant class, which, under capitalism, is the owning class. From the haymarket massacre to Biden's strike breaking shenanigans, this is absolutely beyond dispute. The state will always facilitate monopolies. The only way to get rid of monopolies is for the workers to organize and overthrow the dictatorship of the owning class. Until that happens, it's all Disney, Amazon, and pseudo democracy.
>an usual electric wheelchair costs about $65,000

Can you go into what that statement means? I'm having a hard time parsing "an usual". Seems like there are some electric wheelchairs for ~$2,000:

https://www.forbes.com/health/accessibility/best-electric-wh...

...maybe some specialized wheelchairs cost considerably more?
Orangutan Uses a Poultice
Article reads as overly dismissive of safety measures as well. Seems to be implying that measures to prevent construction workplace accidents are driving the cost up, for example.
It really would be nice for some legislation to restore access to the justice system.
Does a TPU have XLA-graph for GPUs Cuda-graphs? Not sure on TPU theory
Generally I consider nuclear to be an incredible potential, hugely capable.

But civilizationally I don't see us as being able to keep doing the right thing with it. If windmills mess up and come crashing down in 20 years, there's negative impact, but locally and short term. If nuclear waste of contaminated decommissioned sites have a particularly bad day in 300 years, it could cause massive long term widescale problems for potentially centuries.

I want this to be something that governments get behind and do, want it to be a high priority that we put beyond the whims of the market. I want better realistic views of pricing in & maintaining the very very very long lived negative externalities. I want intense research in what makes good long term sense, what's sustainable.

Nuclear has so much potential, is so compelling to me. But I do not see a species organized or driven enough to meet with the very long lived complexities and challenges, do not see the appetite to do the job extremely well. We are very safe about it, but ultimately our scope is short cheap reactors, not doing nuclear in a big lasting fashion, at scale to justify figuring out systematically.

Breeder reactors remain this fancy expensive thing we once did, but don't do again. Cancellation of Integral Fast Reactor & failure to make a PRISM derivative is a really sad failure to mature; here we had a much cheaper safer proloferation-safe way to care for the whole nuclear lifecycle, and we never could muster the try, to see how we might do better. What few reactors that are getting built tend towards unambitious fuel-inefficient simple designs, that saddle us with long term problems.

Edit: -2? What nonsense. Say something! I spent the effort to lay out a view & case, have some decency, downvote-squad; contribute back.
I'm on OxygenOS 12 and I have the option to disable mobile data and/or Wi-Fi for each app, not sure if other versions have that though.
I'm very curious about the form that the discord enshittification will take. For sure, they can't do infinite storage, infinite streaming forever, yet they claim that they don't resell the data. And I doubt that nitro and other gimmicky fees give them any money. So I'm really curious about how it will look when they want to start cashing in on that massive community and personal data they sit on.
I hear it takes only one chicken for all of them to learn a trick.

My grandma had a rooster that ran many circles every morning and eventually flew to a nearby tree branch. The chickens would follow one by one, the last one needed 15 minutes worth of warming up until she was finally able to fly. I dont know what the point was but it seemed important to her? They all sat there watching until she made it.
And Blackadder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6mJw50OdZ4
Thanks! I don't think so unfortunately. It's a great idea though.
I never suggested that we should give up.

It may just be that this group of people isn't up to the challenge and, like you said, natural selection is necessary to produce a group that is up to the challenge.

Unfortunately that selection may come too late and much of the ecosystem may suffer for it.
Star Trek style replicators can't be invented. The laws of physics won't allow it. It will always cost more energy and be vastly less efficient to assemble a cup of coffee atom by atom than it would to just grow the beans, have them picked, packaged and shipped, and make it yourself, and unlike in Star Trek, energy in the real world isn't free.

You might say we could come close with advanced 3D printing and some kind of nanotech,but no such technology will ever be so cheap or ubiquitous as to render politics obsolete. History is replete with advancements and inventions which were supposed to usher in utopia, and all they have ever done is further the means by which the powerful enslave and control us. Technology cannot solve human nature.
I think, fwiw, I would rather work with someone who has the drive and motivation to finish a track of their own than merely recruit a noodler. I think that from a management perspective, I would also abhor opening up any sort of video/audio sharing because then you’re a target for the majors and you get DMCA’d into the ground when kids start uploading their remixes of Taylor Swift songs or whatever.
Setting the poor drill example aside, as someone versed in video and audio editing software, I would point out that none of it is intuitive before you learn it.

All you know is that it evolved from what was intuitive to professionals at introduction. New trainees today never touch a roll of film or align clips, but they have to decipher it without the context.

And yeah article backed out of actually saying anything pointed. Which is a shame because one could really get into it about how pro software UI is a completely different ballgame from other types of UI. Priorities, aesthetic choices, expectations, user habits.

I actually had the opportunity and pleasure to participate in designing UI for a complex device, and some of the current web trends really clashed with the UI that our CAD engineers were pushing for. Our discovery process would regularly prove them wrong about what actually worked for users.
Fairness doesn't matter.

What does matter is that we make our best effort to mitigate the impending disaster to the human race and the ecosystem.
What's the equivilent of marketing/engineering matching, for founding a company?
about time. you also need a clawback provision since it can take a while for flaws to be detected and the execs could be in new jobs by then.
> happy to take on a novice that is excited to learn.

Agree. With zero background in wind-sports I joined a crew. The yacht owner mostly just wanted someone that would turn up reliably - we had one guy who was terrible on the boat but he was reliably there. Good mixture of backgrounds of the crew.

I really enjoyed being part of a team sport.

The main cost was committing to one day a week. I got cheap gear (jacket, gloves) and currently I use a summer wetsuit to stay warm and dry (cold water in our Banks Peninsula harbours).

> climbing, skiing, mountain biking, surfing, windsurfing

Suggested by previous comment. But they are not team sports. I am a developer and those sports are good and social but they are focused on your own personal skills.
The Crunchy Heat Death of the Internet?
How did it cost the average family $3,000 extra for gas in one year? I drove 12,000 miles last year and spent less than $2,000 on gas (480 gallons @ 25mpg, $4/gal), does the average family drive 100k miles a year or am I missing something.

I suppose if you add in all the gas (and diesel/bunker fuel) that you pay for indirectly through transportation costs, you could come up with $3,000 per family.

It is more or less impossible to collude with the Saudis to raise the price of natural gas in the United States (lack of transport), so they must be talking about gasoline.
Yes, they set about on an academic exercise and found themselves with a surprise bestseller. They spent the rest of their days churning out subsequent editions. It was kind of the Harry Potter of its day.
The AI explanations for these tracks is quite amusing/disturbing:

> Based on the information provided, it appears that the user is a resident of the United States, likely living in the Onalaska area of Washington state. They are using a Windows 10 computer and the Firefox web browser, which suggests they are comfortable with technology and keep their software up-to-date.

> The user's browsing activity indicates that they have an interest in lightsaber-related content, which could be a hobby or a professional interest. Their use of the Broadstripe internet service provider, a regional provider in the Pacific Northwest, further reinforces the assumption that they are a local resident.

> While the user's specific age or occupation is not known, their choice of browser and operating system implies that they are likely an adult who is familiar with modern computing technology. They may work in a field that requires internet access, or they could simply be an enthusiastic internet user with a diverse range of interests.

> The fact that the user is accessing the internet through a residential broadband connection suggests that they have a stable living situation and the means to afford reliable internet service. This, combined with their apparent technological proficiency, paints a picture of a relatively well-off and engaged individual.

> Overall, the available information suggests that the user is a tech-savvy adult residing in the Onalaska area of Washington state, with a particular interest in lightsaber-related content. While their specific background and occupation remain unknown, they appear to be a relatively well-established and engaged member of their local community.